Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.